Phoenix Gold Phorum

Been driving my car for years now with no problems besides the heater core, been putting off the simple stuff like timing belt, valve cover gaskets ect for awhile

...well i finally dug into it when my serp. belt idler pulley siezed, id been driving it for around a month with no first gear as well

This thing turned into a fing mountain

I started by digging into the timing belt, turned out that my intermediate oil pump drive shaft was toast, and my cam gear was bad as well

no idea what happened to the oil pump drive, looks like at some point before i owned it the gear came loose and started eating itself. Then they just tightened it back up instead of fixing it, it wobbled alot. Im just lucky it didnt eat the timing belt

I got lucky and found a 16v passat at the junkyard to rape, and got the parts i needed for that

Then when i was installing the new shaft i broke the oil feed line to the suppercharger

When i pulled the charger to fix that i got to thinking i was way overdue for a rebuild on it to...

turned this



into this



plus the worst packaged rebuild kit iv ever seen




Then my displacer for the charger (made of magnesium) somehow fell and got dammaged, luckally i found another one local for $300
Now my charger is good again...

I have new waterpump and thermostat installed, new cam crank and intermediate shaft seals installed, new timing belt and tensioner installed, rebuilt ac lines installed, new front and rear motor mounts on

I have to install the new serp belt idler and tensioner pulley, the rebuilt charger,and put the whole the whole front end of the car back together



Then i get to start on the transmission, have a used one that needs new syncros for 2nd gear ...but at this point im out of money

god don't you just love it when you get to that point when you stand back and think about how much you have taken off and accomplished, and then pray like hell it all goes back together?

Nice! Make it live!!! I have loved all my VWs. I hope I never have to go without one. Looking for a B5 Passat wagon or a Eurovan at the moment. Might stick with the MK3 GTI VR6 a bit longer though.

Those G60s can be made mean. Fun stuff there.

Did you do the 16V conversion on the G60 yourself? I'm guessing you are running the standard pulley on the charger? That would make it about 210BHP wouldn't it?
When I rebuilt the G60 I had in my Mk1 I got the shaft redone at our plating shop to get rid of the grooves from the old oil seals.

I'm currently getting a 9A engine from a corrado ready to go into my Mk1 in place of my 1.8 16v.

ur driving this back to so cal?